Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Friday with Antonio Guterres, the head of the UN, and told him that the Golan Heights would remain in “Israel’s hands forever.”

Meeting at the Munich Security Conference, Netanyahu told the UN secretary general that Tel Aviv would not allow Iran to establish a military presence in Syria.

Reiterating past comments, Netanyahu added that the Israeli regime would act against any Iranian attempt to build bases in Syria.

Netanyahu has made similar comments regarding the Golan in the past. Last year, Netanyahu asked US President Donald Trump to recognize what he called “Israeli sovereignty” over the Golan Heights, territory the Zionist occupation seized from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War.

Tel Aviv made a similar request to the Obama administration in 2015, but it was rejected, diplomats said at the time.

At the beginning of this month, Netanyahu paid a rare visit to the occupied Golan Heights, peering across the nearby border into Syria and warning the enemies of the Zionist occupation not to “test” its resolve. February 17, 2018 http://english.almanar.com.lb/448314

I suspect President Trump will give full support to more Israeli war on Syria... and Russia and Iran.

The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer.It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us.

The principal reason the colonists won the American Revolution is that they possessed weapons equivalent in power and precision to those of the British government. If the colonists had been limited to crossbows that they had registered with the king’s government in London, while the British troops used gunpowder when they fought us here, George Washington and Thomas Jeffersonwould have been captured and hanged.

When Thomas Jeffersonwrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, he was marrying the nation at its birth to the ancient principles of the natural law that have animated the Judeo-Christian tradition in the West. Those principles have operated as a brake on all governments that recognize them by enunciating the concept of natural rights.

As we have been created in the image and likeness of God the Father, we are perfectly free just as He is. Thus, the natural law teaches that our freedoms are pre-political and come from our humanity and not from the government. As our humanity is ultimately divine in origin,the government, even by majority vote, cannot morally take natural rights away from us. A natural right is an area of individual human behavior — like thought, speech, travel, self-defense, privacy, freedom of association, ownership and use of property,— immune from government interference and for the exercise of which we don’t need the government’s permission.

Most people in government reject natural rights and personal sovereignty. Most people in government believe that the exercise of everyone’s rights is subject to the will of those in the government. Most people in government believe that they can write any law and regulate any behavior, not subject to the natural law, not subject to the sovereignty of individuals, not cognizant of history’s tyrants, but subject only to what they can get away with.

Did you empower the government to impair the freedom of us all because of the mania and terror of a few?

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. He is author of “It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom” (Thomas Nelson, 2011).